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Re:Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one... by shmatt on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:55AM (#36358788)
I would question the monetization value of a user visiting reddit to read a 4 year old post about the best water pump, vs. "normie" users just flipping through their front page

These investors are trying to make back 1.3 BILLION dollars sunk into a social network in the top 10 websites visited in the US that can't make money, they're rightfully trying to go full facebook/instagram/normie. What if I told you old.reddit only accounts for 10% or less of web users. That people are actually able to browse new reddit (I personally can't).

tl;dr: For the content they're looking for, no they dont need someone like you who's deleting old posts they don't care about

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Re:Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one... by cityhall on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:19PM (#36359194)
Search engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comments in the past answering tech support questions, reviewing products, etc. Those are the old threads that appear in search results and potentially draw in new users.
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Re:Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one... by mlyle on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:10PM (#36360163)
Having old reddit history show up repeatedly in your search results is part of what creates perceived value to get on the treadmill and follow things happening now.
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